explain-project

To backfill stale project documentation, you can read the repository structure and conduct a targeted interview to capture intent, producing a concrete four-section explanation artifact covering what the project is, why, fragility, and lessons learned.

The best way to generate build-in-public notes is reconstructing honest project understanding by reading repo history and entry points, then asking targeted questions to document tradeoffs and what changed your thinking without guessing details.

To write a README without code comments, use interview-based reasoning to extract intent where code is silent, filling a structured template with visible gaps rather than inventing architectural details or implementation rationale.

Yes, you can document inherited codebase gaps safely by reading the repository first, then asking one targeted question at a time only where code cannot reveal intent, ensuring the output marks unknowns instead of fabricating explanations.

Preparing for interview-based reasoning requires a repo read pass covering the README, manifest, entry points, and recent history to draft initial project structure before asking targeted follow-up questions.